The elections will not end polarization in Turkish politics. In fact, this election should be seen as the first phase of the presidential elections of Aug. 10, 2014.

Western governments' indifference toward Russian advances in Syria and elsewhere helped boost Russia's self-confidence over the last three years

The international community will have to address Iran's role in the Syrian conflict one way or another and a truly lasting resolution will depend on Tehran's behavior as much as that of the Assad regime

Turkey's strategic journey towards a more developed, democratic and prosperous future will continue regardless of conjunctive challenges.

What should be expected from international law in the face of the crimes committed against humanity in Syria?

Corruption cases have a devastating impact on political parties. Turkey was recently hit by a corruption probe that shook the country's government. On December 17, 2013, Turkish police detained over 50 people as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.

Turkey, a country so critical in shaping the international system, should play a more effective role in international organizations.

The slanderous claim of Erdoğan-al Qaeda link has been systematically voiced by the Gulen Group in Turkey. It is impossible to distinguish the mentality behind this slander from the Baath mentality in Syria or the US mentality in Afghanistan.

These photographs are the best proof of why Assad is still standing. These massacres could not have been committed by the Baath regime alone. Just like Milosevic, the racist, Sisi the ouster, Israel the occupier, the Assad regime could inflict atrocities on two conditions.

Developments such as the destruction of the weapons of mass destruction and softening relations between Iran and the international system may generate a different motivation in the upcoming negotiations.

In the last decade, after the tutelage regime was forced to retreat, Turkey embarked on a new era. It was easier then to determine the existence of the military tutelage through the crude and tangible interventions of the military bureaucracy into politics.

Since the operational political engineering that the Gulen Movement has launched by leveraging its power within the bureaucracy corresponds to a developing new form of tutelary, it threatens democracy in Turkey.

We face a center before us that, rather than arresting the criminal, accumulates crimes until it decides to use them for its own politically motivated operation later, committing an ignominious crime itself.

In a period where different political powers have come to terms and made a notable progress about the new administration, and while 96 percent of the relevant works are completed in Yemen, could the launch of a new movement to divide the country starting from the region of Hadramout be a coincidence?

Since January 2011, Arab regimes have also employed the terrorism card to maintain their grip on government.